The Links Between the Security Agenda and Development Aid

Abstract

The article proposes the idea that since September 2001 a link between security and development assistance was created. Revisiting the paradigm on international aid was a pretext to implement State’s security, military and geostrategic policies in some parts of the world, arguing that this would support fragile or failed States and that global war against terror would be carried out. The aim was not to promote security where it was most needed and where there were major problems of insecurity, but to increase it in developed countries although citizens lost their freedom. The objectives of this text are answering how this situation came, which kind of implications for development aid does it have and what are the major trends that may result from this analysis.